Boot speed on fedora core 2

[Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell]

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 01:06:15AM +0200, Raúl Moratalla wrote:
> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> 
> Will Fedora core 2 parallelize linux system services to improve boot 
> speed? I think that the latest version of Mandrake is doing it, and it 
> boots very fast.

With a quick look, it does not.

Look at: readahead_early and readahead in FC2
I believe that they are new,,, see below.

If you are bold you can add timers to each of the rc files and get
some statistics.  Then add background (&) commands to selected ones.
Check for start etc so the right things happen.

Do this with care as many boot activities depend on a previous action
completing. It is important to find the slow ones that do not clutter
the dependency tree of the boot process.

About... readahead_early and readahead in FC2

---
# readahead:    Prereads programs required for startup into memory
#
# chkconfig: 5 96 99
# description:  This service causes the programs used during startup \
#               to be loaded into memory before they are needed,\
#               thus improving startup performance
#
====
The two differ in their input data file.
  /etc/readahead.early.files
  /etc/readahead.files

The list of files including libraries and fonts is long.
Perhaps long enough that local pruning and tuning may apply.


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